Papers
Successfully Fired: The Unique Incentives of Agentic-AI Adoption
Uploaded: Mar 10, 2026
We study optimal incentive contracts when workers privately observe whether Agentic AI can automate their jobs. Firms balance bonuses for truthful reports of successful automation with termination threats. Workers may be fired regardless of automation success (\textit{mass termination}), even though...
Public Goods in Crises
Uploaded: Mar 8, 2026
We introduce nonrival public goods into global games of regime change and rationalize investor behavior in the Euro crisis, the collapse of Terra, and the 2023 bank runs. Each investor in a large project is vanishingly unlikely to be pivotal...
Smart Contracting in Network Markets
Uploaded: Mar 8, 2026
With complete-information bilateral bargaining in network settings, holdup is eliminated when contracts across the network are agreed atomically (all or none) via a smart contract. Applications include over-the-counter trading, syndicated lending, multi-tranche securitizations, third-party financed purchases, and bookbuilding. Under a...
A Unified Theory of Delegated Capital Management
Uploaded: Mar 8, 2026
We develop a unified theory of delegated capital management that extends the competitive, rational-expectations paradigm of Berk and Green (2004) from mutual funds to alternative assets. With perfectly competitive capital markets, we derive the optimal contract and account for observed...
Using asset prices to measure the long-run impact of monetary policy
Uploaded: Mar 7, 2026
We develop a methodology to measure market expectations of the long-run impact of monetary policy from asset prices using the operator approach of Hansen
and Scheinkman (2009). We show that the ratio of long term equity returns to long term bond...